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After Chuck Hagel: Why Obama’s next pick for Pentagon chief could determine his foreign policy legacy
Poor Defense Secretary Hagel. Hired and fired in just one term.
I’m not surprised.
When he got the job I warned that he was the wrong pick, because he didn’t have good relations with Congress to sell the president’s unpopular…
Why the hottest senate race in the country might just be in Alaska
One of the closet and most significant Senate races in the country this year is Alaska’s election for the junior Senate slot presently held by Democrat Mark Begich.
Alaska, the forty ninth state admitted to the Union, is our largest…
A culture of meanness and political opportunism, on both sides, is poisoning Washington
On Monday, as the tragic shooting in the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard was still in the process of unfolding, President Obama gave a partisan speech observing the fifth anniversary of the financial crisis. Despite the fact that the shooting had…
Our politicians are behaving like addicts
If Congress fails to act before the end of the year, taxes will rise sharply for every American taxpayer. Also, as a consequence of the debt ceiling compromise reached in 2011, modest spending cuts are slated to take effect. Yet,…